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title: “Coming soon with the pink taro you so dearly love,” was the reply. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Coming soon with the pink taro you so dearly love,” was the reply. Who acts: you, Coming. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 18

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“Coming soon with the pink taro you so dearly love,” was the reply.

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**Who acts:** you, Coming · **What happens:** come, love, be · **To what, where:** reply · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Coming), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:19:18
# text = “Coming soon with the pink taro you so dearly love,” was the reply.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	taro	taro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	dearly	dearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the pink taro; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **love** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *speech: assert* | past | Coming | the reply |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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